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On 25 April, within the framework of Kyiv StratCom Forum 2025, the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security presented a new study on how Russian propaganda is trying to impede Ukraine’s European integration.
Ukraine’s path to the EU is irreversible, but Russia has been making enormous efforts for decades to change this. Moscow has made extensive use of corruption, economic blackmail, political pressure, and eventually turned to military intervention. Russia has also been conducting aggressive information manipulation and interference (FIMI) aimed at undermining Ukrainians’ confidence that the European choice is the right one.
Anti-European propaganda became particularly intense during the full-scale war. The closer Ukraine gets to EU membership, the more intense these attacks will become. Therefore, it is very important today to monitor Russian FIMI interventions and have a clear idea of the map of information threats.
This study focuses on the narratives used by Russian propaganda in its FIMI interventions in the Ukrainian media field. The goal of these interventions is to create and strengthen anti-European sentiments and negative prejudices against European countries and the EU as a whole. The study analyses five main propaganda narratives that are part of the Kremlin’s official rhetoric, namely:
· ‘Ukraine is a puppet in the hands of the West’
· ‘Western elites benefit from the war in Ukraine’
· ‘European countries are claiming the territory of Ukraine’
· ‘Europe has fallen spiritually’
· ‘The European Union is doomed to collapse’
We have also analysed the relevant FIMI interventions that took place from 1 January to 15 April 2025. This gives an insight into the techniques and methods of Russian special services, and thus allows for more effective counteraction to information threats.
The research is available here.
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